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I send a lot of these to people as I get them, so apologies if you’ve already seen them.<\/p>\n

1 – Upside-down map<\/a> – Australian<\/a> Stuart McArthur<\/a> drew his first upside-down map in 1970. Why? Well, why should Europe<\/a> be at the top anyway? His teacher told him to re-do his assignment if he wanted to pass. 40 odd years later and he’s sold 350,000 copies of the buggers.<\/p>\n

2 – Mad map<\/a> – It’s a special type of madness that tries to organise the entire history of US business scandals into an A4-sized diagram. The good thing about this is that that diagrams are normally used to communicate complex information more effectively than words. This diagram is a failure. But a joyous one.<\/p>\n

3 – Simon and Garfunkel Tennis<\/a> – A tennis<\/a> game where you get to play the umpire. An unusual approach to Flash<\/a> gaming but the simple absurdity made me grin!<\/p>\n

4 – Platform World<\/a> – Lots of little stickmen, jumping and climbing around. Someone has tiled it to make a gigantic image of an epic stickman world. It’s pleasingly like something by MC<\/a> Escher. And another one…<\/a><\/p>\n

5 – KFC-a-like Spotting<\/a> – KFC<\/a> sell protein<\/a> to poor people, but the real poverty stricken<\/a> people eat in KFC-a-like restaurants. You know, the lettering will be the same colours as KFC but the logo will be “Texan Fried Chicken<\/a>” or best of all, “Kent<\/a>‘s Tuck Inn Fried Chicken.” This site is compiling photos of all the variations.<\/p>\n

6 – Are You Northern?<\/a> – A test so that you can tell if you’re northern. “It was based on an extremely large sample of eight friends,” the creator brags “And I can conclusively say that it is largely 64% correct.”<\/p>\n

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I send a lot of these to people as I get them, so apologies if you’ve already seen them. 1 – Upside-down map – Australian Stuart McArthur drew his first upside-down map in 1970. Why? Well, why should Europe be at the top anyway? His teacher told him to re-do his assignment if he wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[80,314,659,785,922,1197,1438,1680,1800,2190,2421,2423,2523,2690,2866,2960,2961,3142],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage","tag-80","tag-australia","tag-chicken","tag-cooking","tag-diagram","tag-fried-chicken","tag-home","tag-kfc","tag-linkage-2","tag-northern-test","tag-poultry","tag-poverty","tag-recreation","tag-september","tag-stickmen","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-umpires","tag-upside-down-map","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}